Assignment: Healthcare Delivery And Organization
You will begin working on your course project. You will select a topic for your project (Topic 1: Disease Process or Topic 2: Healthcare Profession). You will use this and only this topic for the remainder of the course Assignments.
You will complete weekly tasks for the selected topic, and you will present the course project in one formatted document.
Tasks
Select one of the two topics below for your project, and:
Provide a short definition or description of the topic.
Provide the rationale for choosing this topic.
Conclude with a high-level description of how you plan to collect the data for this project.
Complete a 300- to 350-word essay in a Microsoft Word document with appropriate references noted.
Topic 1: Disease Process Examples
Select a disease process from among the following:
Diabetes
Obesity
Coronary artery disease
Asthma
Arthritis
Alzheimer's disease
Cancer (lung, colon, breast)
You will trace the continuum of care for this disease process in your own geographic region. Select a specific payer type before beginning. Be sure to collect information on the following:
Socioeconomic issues
Primary care
Specialist referrals
Outpatient services
Hospital care
Tertiary care, if appropriate
Rehabilitation care, if appropriate
Managed care issues
Quality-of-care issues
Total cost of care
or
Topic 2: Healthcare Profession Examples
Select a particular healthcare profession of interest or importance to your own career. Identify the education, training, key interrelationships with other professions, referral patterns, managed care issues, and liability issues for the profession. Be sure to include:
Education and training process
Role in the delivery system
Supply and demand in the U.S.
Typical sites of care
Typical sources of referral
Reimbursement issues
Liability issues
Average compensation
Trends in medical technology impacting this profession
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.